From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 00:53:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA26690 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:53:39 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA26671 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:53:17 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA01021; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:51:21 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA16210; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:51:21 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA16674; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 08:56:22 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511210756.IAA16674@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE now available! To: jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 08:56:21 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Nov 20, 95 08:03:19 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 840 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > i have not yet had a chance to play with a source-routing > traceroute or to sendmail to myself by way of two sites in, say, > australia. i have heard horror stories about non-us > connectivity--several nets in one country reach each other by way of the > usa. is this really teh case ?? Unfortunately, yes. :-( At least here, several upcoming providers start with a leased line to US (or UK in one case) in order to provide their connectivity. National interconnections often follow years behind. (One of these providers was able to establish these interconnections meanwhile, at least to other ones are still being routed via US.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)